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News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: Solution-Soft's GDSII and MEBES
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 9 November 2005
GDSII and MEBES
compression integrated with CATS
Synopsys has announced the general release of Solution-Soft's GDSII and MEBES format data compression technologies as part of its CATS mask data preparation software
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for semiconductor photomask manufacturing. The seamless integration of GDSII and MEBES data compression technology with CATS software enables designers to read, write and view gdzip and mezip compression files on-the-fly without having to decompress them on disk. This saves online and offline storage costs and network bandwidth while increasing transfer speed and reliability.
In addition, with file sizes reaching the terabyte level, these new technologies will help customers to improve their overall processing times.
The gdzip and mezip compressed format has achieved widespread popularity in the semiconductor industry with TSMC, UMC, Chartered Semiconductor, SMIC, Hejian and Tower Semiconductor all supporting this format for their customers' tape-outs worldwide.
'The Tape-out Operations Group at Xilinx has been using Solution-Soft's MEBES and GDSII compression tools for several years'.
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'With the read and write capability of compressed files now integrated with Synopsys' CATS fracture software, this solution eases our manufacturing preparation burden'.
'Now that we don't have to uncompress files, especially the large MEBES files, we gain a great convenience and a considerable productivity enhancement, as well as save additional investments into infrastructure like file storage servers', said Dr Wolfgang J Leitermann, Senior Manager, Tape-out Operations at Xilinx.
'Other advantages are faster transfer time of files to our foundry partners overseas and faster restore times from the archive'.
'Solution-Soft recognised the challenge faced by the industry to transfer, manipulate and store the exponentially increasing IC design and fractured files', said Paul Wang, President of Solution-Soft.
'In response, we developed the breakthrough compressors gdzip and mezip for the industry standard GDSII and MEBES formats'.
'The combination of Synopsys' CATS software with Solution-Soft's compression technology will give our mutual customers unmatched efficiency in data processing and archiving, will reduce transfer time, and will offer a smaller storage footprint'.
'The gdzip and mezip compressors deliver an order of magnitude better compression and smaller files than generic compression tools', said Dr J Tracy Weed, Director of Product Marketing, Synopsys DFM Products.
'The ability to view GDSII and MEBES compressed files while leaving them compressed on disks provides a new enabling capability to the industry which can deliver considerable time and storage savings to customers during their photomask data preparation cycle'.
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